Smokeydope
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- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
From what Ive seen in arguments about this, Plex generally is more accessible with QoL and easier to understand interface for non-techie people to share with family/friends. Something thats hard for nerdy people to understand is that average people are perfectly fine paying for digital goods and services. They happily pay premiums just to not have to rub two braincells together. If you figure out how to make a very useful plug-an-play service that works without the end user of average intelligence/domain knowledge stressing about how to set up, maintain, and navigate confusing layouts, you’ve created digital gold.
- Comment on nyet 1 week ago:
Cool! Thank you for digging up that video I appreciate it :)
- Comment on nyet 1 week ago:
I believe you may be mistaken on the claim he didnt make them. Theres a good few videos floating around of him blowing the glass on numberphile. The Wikipedia just says he keeps the stock in his house.
- Comment on I'm guilty of not reading the f..ing documentation 2 weeks ago:
I volunteer as developer for a decade old open source project A sizable amount of my contribution is literally just cooking up decent documentation or re-writting old doc from the original module authors written close to a decade ago. Programmers as it turns out are very ‘eh, the code should explain itself to anyone with enough brains to look at it’ type of people who barely comment in the first place and so lost in the sauce of being a tech nerd instantly understanding all variables, functions, parameters, and syntax at very first glance at source code that they forgot the need for re-translation into regular human paragraphs for people who can barely navigate the command line… The seeming lack of college level english vocabulary/semantic proofreading abilities doesn’t help much either…
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 4 weeks ago:
There are some pretty close physical analogs that are fun to think about. You cant move a black hole by exerting physical force on it in the normal way so practically infinite gravity wells are like a immovable “object”, though if you’re clever and nerdy enough you can cook some fun ways to harness its gravitational rotation into a kind of engine, or throw another black hole at it to create gravitational waves which are like a kind of unstoppable force which can just barely be detected with our finest LIGO sensors spanning a sizable length of the planet.
- Comment on YSK theres a open source tool to cleanly read webpage articles called 'NewsWaffle' 5 weeks ago:
True! Most browsers don’t have native gemini protocol support. However a web proxy like the ones I shared allow you to get gemini support no matter the web browser. Gemtext is a simplified version of markdown which means its not too hard to convert from gemtext to html/webpage. So, by scraping information from bloated websites, formatting it into the simple gemtext format markdown, then mirroring it back as a simple web/html page, it works together nicely to re-render bloated sites on simple devices using gemini as a formatting medium technology. You don’t really need to understand gemini protocol to use newswaffle+portal.mozz.us in your regular web browser
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 1 month ago:
When I was born TVs were small square boxes powered by glass tubes and turny knobs. I want to say 480p but tbh if you were using a junky 10 inch display at the turn of the century on satallite it was closer to like 240p. The jump from square 480p to widescreen 720/1080 was an actual graphical revolution for most people in a very big way, especially for watching movies that were shot in wide. In terms of games 1080p is the point where realistic looking graphics meet acceptable resolution for like skin pours and godrays and shit. GTA5, TLOU and RDR are the examples that come to mind from the AAA 1080p era and their original states still probably hold up today.
When the 4k stuff finally came around and it was advertised as the next revolution I was excited man. However compared to going from 480 to 1080 it wasn’t a huge change tbh. It seems once you’re already rendering skin detail and individual blades of grass and simulating atmospheric condition godrays, there isn’t much more the graphics snobs can drastically improve just by throwing a billion polygons at a mesh. The compute power and storage space required to get these minimal detail gains also starts escalating hard. Its such bullshit that modern AAA games are like 80gb minimum with half of that probably being 4k textures.
I will say that im like the opposite of a graphics snob and slightly proud of it so my opinions on 4k and stuff are biased. Im happy with 1080p as a compromise between graphical quality and compute/disk space required. Ive never played a 1080p at maximum graphics and wanted for more. Im not a competitive esports player, im not a rich tech bro who can but the newest upgraded gpu and 500tb of storage. I don’t need my games to look hyperrealistic. I play games for the fun gameplay and the novel experiences they provide. Some of the best games I’ve ever played look like shit and can be played on a potato. Most of the games I found boring were AAA beautiful open worlds that were as wide and pretty as an ocean but gameplay wise it was as deep as a dried up puddle. I hopped off the graphics train a very long time ago, so take my cloud yelling with a grain of salt.
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 1 month ago:
I have no issue with remakes themselves. Games are a kind of art, and good art should be kept alive for the next generations to enjoy. The problem to me is that its 1.
all studios want to put out now because its a safe and easy cash grab. One of the top comments about there being 7 skyrims and 2 oblivions before ES6 is soo real man.
- Graphics have plateud from late 2010s and onward. Remastered and remaked stuff made a lot more since for the ps2/xbox and backwards, with the ps3/x360 1080p resolution it made a little less sense but I could still understand them porting like TLOU to ps4 at 4k or whatever. But now were remastering games that came out 5 years ago at 4k and trying to sell it as some huge graphical overhaul worth the asking price. Maybe im insane or old but my eyes can barely tell the difference between 1080p and 4k, going from 4k to 8k is like the same picture with slightly different shaders.
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure WiFi is a kind of radio signal…
- Comment on YSK theres a open source tool to cleanly read webpage articles called 'NewsWaffle' 2 months ago:
I think ill email Acidus and ask if they can get something going on. Thanks for the interest!
- Comment on YSK theres a open source tool to cleanly read webpage articles called 'NewsWaffle' 2 months ago:
They are similar and use some of the same underlying technology powered by the readability library, but newswaffle gives more options on how to render the article (article mode, link mode, raw mode), it isolates images and gives them their own external url link you can click on, it tells you exactly how much cruft it saved from original webpage (something about seeing 99.x% lighter makes my brain tingle good chemicals). It works well with article indexes. Hope these examples help.
- Comment on YSK theres a open source tool to cleanly read webpage articles called 'NewsWaffle' 2 months ago:
Yes it absolutely can! I linked the githubs with open source codes. Unfortunately I don’t think theres any precompiled executables for newswaffle its just source written in vscode. I’m only a hobbyist and not really familiar with compiling vscode but was hoping a more knowledgeable person could figure it out.
Not sure about portal.mozz source I haven’t looked to hard into it yet but hoping its easier.
- Comment on YSK theres a open source tool to cleanly read webpage articles called 'NewsWaffle' 2 months ago:
Not every device with a built in web browser has reader view (like the kobo I showed). I believe firefox reader requires you download the whole webpage first and then post formats. Newswaffle is useful If your limited on data, don’t want your connection touching the servers of the news site, or just like how it formats sites over a reader view.
- Submitted 2 months ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on lightweight blog ? 2 months ago:
Would something like this interest you? Gemtext formatted to html is about as light weight as it gets. lots of automatic gemtext blog software on github that also formats and mirrors an html copy.
- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 2 months ago:
Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Self-hosting minecraft 2 months ago:
- Download server files and run them. Modern Minecraft requires java runtime enviroment 17, 1.16 and belore jre8. If you have synaptic package manager search for jre there.
- I usually make a batch file to execute server. set memory size usage, nogui and stuff.
- Open up the port for default mc server in your router. 25565, TCP+UDP, in out both ways. Make exceptions in your firewall too.
- Comment on Decentralized Search Engine 2 months ago:
I wrote a guide on here about the differences between alternative search engines. I recommend for you either YaCy or marginalia.nu. searxng supports calling YaCy (I actually contributed to that feature on the github).
The problem with decentralized engines like marginalia and YaCy is that they aren’t good at the things a average user wants from a typical search engine. Ideally a search engine is meant to quickly provide you links to webpages which are strongly related in content to you are looking for. Shopping, weather, map directions, local business hours. On some level you need to prioritize showing the user what they want ideally within the first few results.
Decentralized engines by their nature don’t do this easily. Instead using YaCy or marginalia feels like a scavenger hunt where you get handed a page of random websites loosely connected by your keyword search term and are told to start looking. YaCy has a user curated priority system but not enough user mass adoption to be worth a damn in practice.
So sadly if you want anything resembling google or bing results for your practical convinence driven daily internet searching needs, you need to scrape them or use one of their few real competitors with their own indexers and web crawlers. So really your options are scraping google, bing, mojeek, qwant, kagi and DuckDuckGo(ish they still use bing for indexing a lot). Out of those Ive actually warmed up to Kagi over the year. I was put off at the idea of subscription based internet search but its a really good service they provide and they line out their reasoning for pricing well. They seem to be using that monthly sub money to actually improve the service and user experiences while remaining transparent with constant changelogs and blog updates. Privacy pass, available TOR access, and anonymous payment options are green flags to me.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic | Mozilla says it deleted promise because "sale of data" is defined broadly 3 months ago:
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic | Mozilla says it deleted promise because "sale of data" is defined broadly 3 months ago:
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic | Mozilla says it deleted promise because "sale of data" is defined broadly 3 months ago:
If you read in between the lines, Mozilla is also funded by google as technical competition to chrome so that governments dont break them up with anti-monopoly busting case.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 months ago:
You can’t do anything because these excuses are window dressing and not the core of the issue. The core of the issue is that 99% of people are incredibly unwilling to change their habits or spend five minutes to wrap their heads around how websites work. If the question of which server to join is too much, this kind of space isn’t for you.
No, having a full time job or a family is not an excuse to not learn how computers or the internet or networks in general work. You’ve had a lifetime to learn and are willfully ignorant.
Im personally fine with basic competence and tech literacy to be a natural gate keeping the unwashed morons out. Lemmy is growing at a fine pace without catering to the lowest common denominators.
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 3 months ago:
I get its a bit of self deprecating humor but in seriousness it shows the exact opposite IMO. Going with the flow would be continuing to consume reddit slop no matter how awful the website gets, no matter how much content is baked by a bot, no matter how many more ads they show you just to comment or post. “Lol I know its getting shittier but im addicted and unwilling to change my habits to represent my backbone. Please daddy just let me continue posting I promise ill be good little content monkey and keep your shareholder numbers up this quarter.”
Good on you for being a trendsetter, Echofox.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 3 months ago:
Its generic slop by anime standards. Like yeah anime is meant for teenagers and young adults so you can’t be too critical over fanservice or flat YA novel Gary sue tier character writing or forgetting to write an actually compelling reason for the villian trapping them in the digital world by he time its over.
Anime in general is not meant to be high art but SAO goes the extra mile to be uninteresting bland slop that appeals to the lowest common denominator. The isekai genre has done a lot better over the decade since SAO initially released things like rezero blow it out if the water in terms of actually interesting plot and suspense.
- Comment on Nvidia loses $500 bn in value as Chinese AI firm jolts tech shares 4 months ago:
- Comment on Nvidia loses $500 bn in value as Chinese AI firm jolts tech shares 4 months ago:
Try an albliterated version of the qwen 14 or 32b distills. it will give you a real overview.
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 6 months ago:
I always felt that humanoid aliens were also a way to get the audience to more easily emotionally connect and treat them as characters. We have a hard time recognizing sentience and the capability of feeling in other animals. Its easier to relate to blue cat person than to the Blob
- Comment on circuits 6 months ago:
W E R I S E ⚡
- Comment on circuits 6 months ago:
Circuit analysis was so boring and teedious I didnt like doing it at all. Thanks for the relatable meme for all dozen of us EE on sciencememes
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 6 months ago:
At least we will have mummy jerky… For now.
